Project Syndicate – Page 2 – Asia Times

World

The fall of the economists’ empire

by Robert Skidelsky July 26, 2019February 18, 2020

Beijing, China, India, Russia, South Asia, United States, World

From moon walk to space wars

by Brahma Chellaney July 20, 2019February 18, 2020

Afghanistan continues to be roiled by a violent Taliban insurgency, but reconciliation talks in Abu Dhabi have brought the warring parties a bit closer to peace, according to UAE officials. Photo: iStock.

Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, South Asia, United States, World

India skeptical of Afghan peace ‘roadmap’

by Shashi Tharoor July 17, 2019February 18, 2020

Middle East, United Arab Emirates, World

How an AI utopia would work

by Sami Mahroum July 15, 2019February 18, 2020

Beijing, China, Hong Kong

The limits of mass protest in a dictatorship

by Ian Buruma July 9, 2019February 18, 2020

World

How – and how not – to restore trust in media

by Alexandra Borchardt July 7, 2019February 18, 2020

China, United States, World

Power and interdependence in Trump era

by Joseph S. Nye July 4, 2019February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump shows the document reinstating sanctions against Iran. Photo: AFP / Saul Loeb

Iran, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, United States, World

America’s economic blockades and international law

by Jeffrey D. Sachs July 1, 2019February 18, 2020

New Zealand, Oceania

Why despair is beating hope

by Nicholas Agar June 30, 2019February 18, 2020

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam takes her oath in front of Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 20th anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule, in Hong Kong, China, July 1, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Beijing, China, Hong Kong

What Carrie Lam should do next

by Chris Patten June 26, 2019February 18, 2020

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be happy with the revised economic data. Photo: AFP/ Geoff Robins

AT Finance, Japan, Northeast Asia

For Japan’s PM, G20 to focus on three key issues

by Shinzo Abe June 25, 2019February 18, 2020

Iran, Middle East, United States, World

The gulf of deniability

by John Andrews June 24, 2019February 18, 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress over the company's use and protection of user data in Washington on April 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Leah Millis

World

Facebook’s Libra must be stopped

by Katharina Pistor June 24, 2019February 18, 2020

A demonstrator holds a picture of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on October 25. Photo: AFP

Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Turkey

Seeking justice for journalists

by Leon Willems June 19, 2019February 18, 2020

Iran, Middle East, United States, World

Taking on Tehran

by Richard N. Haass June 17, 2019February 18, 2020

Thousands turned out on June 30 to decry the Trump administration's detention of families policy at the US Mexico border. Divisions have grown in the US under the Trump administration. Photo: AFP/Frederic J. Brown

Mexico, United States, World

High cost of tariff man’s brinkmanship

by Anne O Krueger June 15, 2019February 18, 2020

Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, the national Mosque of Indonesia. Photo: iStock.

World

Is Christianity losing to Islam?

by Paul Seabright June 9, 2019February 18, 2020

The recent wave of violence in the West Bank highlights the desperate state of the Palestinian Authority. Photo:: iStock

Israel, Middle East, Palestine

How to solve the Palestinian refugee problem

by Daoud Kuttab June 6, 2019February 18, 2020

Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping Photo: People.com.cn

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Russia, Singapore, World

Deng Xiaoping’s victory

by Ian Buruma June 3, 2019February 18, 2020

President Xi Jinping's administration is facing a catalog of domestic problems. Photo: AFP

China

China’s Tiananmen reckoning

by Brahma Chellaney June 3, 2019February 18, 2020

Artificial Intelligence. Image: iStock

World

How AI can help us decode immunity

by Wayne C Koff June 1, 2019February 18, 2020

Beijing, China, Hong Kong

Tiananmen, a memory China can’t suppress

by Chris Patten May 30, 2019February 18, 2020

India, South Asia

India’s cult of Modi

by Shashi Tharoor May 29, 2019February 18, 2020

China, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, United States, World

China, Russia key to Kim’s strategy

by Kent Harrington May 29, 2019February 18, 2020

Greek activists display a banner reading "Europeans vs austerity" as they stage a protest opposite the venue of a meeting of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) in Berlin, on September 27, 2011. Photo: AFP / John MacDougall

World

Has austerity been vindicated?

by Robert Skidelsky May 26, 2019February 18, 2020

China, Japan, Northeast Asia, United States, World

Is the US tired of losing yet?

by Anne O Krueger May 19, 2019February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting on July 18, 2018, at the White House in Washington, DC. In a file photo taken on May 2, 2018, a handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows President Hassan Rouhani giving a speech on Iranian TV in Tehran. Photo: AFP and Iranian Presidency / Nicholas Kamm and Handout

Iran, Middle East, United States, World

US vs Iran: a confrontation from hell

by Amin Saikal May 13, 2019February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump participates in a celebration of military mothers and spouses at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2018. Photo: Reuters, Leah Millis

China, Russia, United States, World

American soft power in the age of Trump

by Joseph S. Nye May 8, 2019February 18, 2020

Photo: iStock

China’s path not taken

by Ian Buruma May 7, 2019February 18, 2020

Determining fake news from facts can often be difficult. Photo: iStock

Beijing, China, European Union, Middle East, Turkey, United States, World

Developing a free press

by Josh Friedman May 5, 2019February 18, 2020